In Singapore, we are always complaining that it’s too hot here, the air-conditioner’s not working and I often refuse to answer back when my friends ask, “don’t you think Singapore is getting hotter?” I don’t know the answer. It sure seems to me but if you pull out all the strange demographs and stuff, it may not be the case. I’m not sure in Singapore is getting colder, all I know is recently it has been raining.
In Japan, a man thinks the weather is too cold so he…
*Man holds up restaurant to escape cold*
MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi — A man has been arrested after bursting into a family restaurant and yelling out, “I’m an armed robber who wants to get caught, call the cops,” police said.
Katsumi Sato, 52, arrested for extortion and for breaking the Firearms and Swords Control Law, soon admitted to the allegations.
“It was really cold and I wanted to get into the warm detention cell,” the unemployed man of no fixed address told the police.
Police said that Sato burst into the family restaurant in the early hours of Saturday morning, held a female employee at knifepoint and said, “I’m an armed robber who wants to get caught. Call the cops.”
Employees obliged and Sato was duly arrested. No employees or customers were injured.
The Sendai District Meteorological Observatory said the temperature around Matsushima on Saturday morning was about 5 degrees, about the same as the average for mid-April.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun
I don’t know if that is a smart choice. It sure seemed stupid right to me right now. If I am cold, I won’t think of getting jailed as an alternative. The only reason that can ever make me consider this is when I really have no money to eat and my daily meals become a real bad problem. And even with this scenario, I would consider carefully.